Garment sleeve cuff



Feb. 14, 1950 w, JACOBSON 2,497,262

GARMENT SLEEVE CUFF Original Filed Aug. 7, 1947 FIQZ . INVENTOR.

ILAMAE W. JACOBSON A TTORNEYJ' Patented Feb. 14, 1950 GARMENT SLEEVE CUFF Ilamae W. Jacobson, St. Louis Park, Minn.

Original application August 7, 1947, Serial No. 766,979, now Patent No. 2,469,556, dated May 10, 1949. Divided and this application November 19, 1947, Serial No. 786,907

2 Claims.

This invention relates to cuffs for garment sleeves and particularly to a retractable closure cuif and is a division of my pending application Serial No. 766,979, entitled, Childrens sleeping garment, filed August 7, 1947, now Patent No. 2,469,556.

It is an object of my invention to provide a retractable closure cuff for a garment sleeve adapted to normally enclose the hand of the wearer and to be retracted inside the lower portion of the sleeve to provide a neatly tailored cuff.

It is another object to provide a retractable sleeve cuff adapted to fold back within a garment sleeve with means for securely holding said cuff in retracted position.

These and other objects and advantages of my invention will more fully appear from the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein like reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views and in which;

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of my retractable sleeve closing cuff with the cuff flaps extended;

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the cuff shown in Fig. 1, one side of the sleeve being cut away to show the flap on the other side in retracted position;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central sectional view showing the cuff flaps of my sleeve closure in secured retracted position; and,

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken substantially along the line 4-4 of Fig. 1 and showing the cuff flaps in extended position.

As illustrated in the accompanying drawings, I provide a garment sleeve 8 having the cuff flaps 9 and I integrally formed at the lower end thereof and disposed in opposed relation to each other. The cuff flaps 9 and Ill, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, are curved in an arcuate shape to provide a hand enclosing tailored cuff when said flaps are in extended position as best shown in Fig. 1. It should be noted that there are no angular outwardly extending corners on the cuff flaps which might catch on objects and present a clumsy inefficient cuff.

A plurality of snap fasteners such as the three snap fasteners ll, l2 and I3 are mounted in the lower marginal portions of the cuffs, each of said fasteners having cooperating fastener elements respectively mounted in opposed portions of the two cuff flaps 9 and ID. A pair of similar snap fasteners 14 are mounted in the lower portion of the sleeve 8 and are spaced upwardly from the flaps 9 and I0. These fastener elements [4 are disposed on the inside of the sleeve and are adapted to respectively receive the fastener elements I2 of the flaps 9 and II] to hold the cuffs in retracted position when they are folded back inside the lower portion of sleeve 8. The flaps are shown in retracted position in Figs. 2 and 3 and in extended position in Figs. 1 andfl.

By folding the cuff flaps 9 and I0 back inside of the lower portion of the sleeve 8, it will be seen that the flaps are retracted out of the way and will not catch on objects as they would if they were folded back on the outside of the lower portion of the sleeve 8. Also, the appearance of the cuff presented by folding the flaps 9 and I0 back inside of the sleeve is much neater and more eye-appealing than when folded outside the sleeve. The fastener elements l2 cooperate to close the central portion of the cuff when in ex tended position and also serve a second function of cooperating with the respective fastener elements l4 mounted on the inside of the sleeve 8 to securely hold the cuffs 9 and II] in retracted position.

It will be seen that I have provided a highly efficient retractable hand enclosing cuff which can be folded back to provide a neat, conventional cuff.

It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made in the form, details, arrangement and proportions of the parts without departing from the scope of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. A cuff for a garment sleeve, comprising a pair of opposed retractable flaps at the sleeve extremity, said flaps being adapted to be retracted upwardly within the forward portion of said sleeve, at least one pair of fastening elements mounted in fixed relation in the outer marginal portion of said flaps to cooperate one with the other for securely closing said sleeve extremity when said flaps are in extended hand enclosing position, and a pair of opposed fastening elements mounted on the inside of said sleeve in up- Wardly spaced relation from the outer extremity of said flaps and adapted to respectively cooperate with both of said flap fastening elements to securely hold said flaps in retracted position within said sleeve.

2. A cuff for a garment sleeve, comprising a pair of opposed retractable flaps disposed longitudinally of the sleeve and integrally formed therewith, said flaps being adapted to be folded back inside the lower portion of said sleeve, a plurality of closure snap fasteners mounted in fixed relation in the outer marginal end portions of said flaps and including cooperating pairs of closure fastener elements respectively mounted in opposed relation in said flaps, and a pair of snap fastener elements respectively mounted on the inside of said sleeve in upwardly spaced relation from said flapsand adapted to respectively cooperate with'a pair ofvsaid flap closure elements to securely hold said flaps in retracted positio inside said sleeve.

ILAMAE W. JACOBSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

Number Number UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Regan July 14, 1908 Milkes Jan. 11, 1921 Brown July 4, 1944 FOREIGN PATENTS Country Date Great Britain 1905 

